Sentences with phrase «on inheritable»

The ability to diagnose and exclude embryos with verified genetic abnormalities prior to implantation and actual initiation of a pregnancy offers at - risk patients a way to prevent passing on inheritable genetic diseases before implantation.

«Assortative mating on inheritable traits that are indicative of socio - economic status, such as educational achievement, increases the genetic variance of characteristics in the population.

Not exact matches

In a series of stop - and - go legislation over the past few years, North America finally lifted a ban on germ - line editing — a fancy term for editing inheritable genes, permanently altering the passage of DNA from generation to generation.

Some companies have changed their offerings and instead provide information on ancestry and whether you're a genetic carrier for certain inheritable diseases (and could pass those genes to your children).

In August 2003, the Journal of Veterinary Medicine carried an Italian study which showed that dogs also develop vaccine - induced cancers at their injection sites.5 We already know that vaccine - site cancer is a possible sequel to human vaccines, too, since the Salk polio vaccine was said to carry a monkey retrovirus (from cultivating the vaccine on monkey organs) that produces inheritable cancer.

Health testing one adult dog costs between $ 350 - $ 600, depending on the amount of inheritable diseases plaguing a breed.

This is further complicated by the fact that anyone saved from a health problem increases healthcare demands both linearly (very few health treatment really fixes things, so future demands on healthcare by the same patient will on average be higher), and exponential (a LOT of health problems are inheritable), because people demand the genetics of their kids be «respected» even when known problems exist.